Today's meeting would have originally been scheduled for last week but given that 4-July is the official low-explosive pyrotechnic holiday in the United States, we postponed for a week.

Issue triage

Update error message for EnsureWixToolsetInstalled, from @totszwai, requests a different URL in the build-time message that appears when WiX v4 isn't installed. Today, WiX v4 is unstable and shuffled away from the stable WiX v3.11 release. Rob volunteered to take this bug and, perhaps, create a different "landing" URL for WiX v4 builds.

Visual Studio 2017 build server support, from @Matthew-Bonner, reported lack of support for the Visual Studio Build Tools SKU. That is, in fact, sadly true: The Build Tools SKU doesn't support VSIX extensions so we can't install MSBuild targets that redirect to those installed by the WiX build tools.

Error building simple setup, from @erikread, is another bug report on an Insider build of Windows 10. We asked the reporter to report the bug to the Windows team, as it appears to be a change in behavior in Windows Installer itself.

Add support for Microsoft MAT for .wxl files, from @wstaelens, is a request that .wxl loc-string files support Microsoft's Multilingual App Toolkit, or, that Multilingual App Toolkit support .wxl files. Either way, we took the request in WiX v4.x if someone would do the investigatory work to determine what's required for that kind of support.

WiX v4.0 baselines

Rob proposed that as a major release, WiX v4.0 should trim the long tail of supported versions of Visual Studio and .NET Framework. So, for example, WiX v4.0 would drop support for Visual Studio versions before 2015 and require .NET Framework 4.6.1 to run the build tools. We believe few people would be impacted and, of course, WiX v3.11 is always ready to handle your older version needs.

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